Mechanic vs Null - What's the difference?
mechanic | null |
(archaic) mechanical; relating to the laws of motion in the art of constructing things
* Ray
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
* Roscommon
* Thomson
(obsolete) base
A skilled worker capable of building or repairing machinery. A mechanic can be compared to a technician, the distinction being that the technician is stronger in theory, the mechanic stronger in hands-on experience.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between mechanic and null
is that mechanic is a skilled worker capable of building or repairing machinery a mechanic can be compared to a technician, the distinction being that the technician is stronger in theory, the mechanic stronger in hands-on experience while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective mechanic
is (archaic) mechanical; relating to the laws of motion in the art of constructing things.mechanic
English
(wikipedia mechanic)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
- These mechanic philosophers.
- Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.
- To make a god, a hero, or a king / Descend to a mechanic dialect.
- Sometimes he ply'd the strong, mechanic tool.
- (Whitlock)
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* auto mechanicExternal links
* * *null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.